Atomic Rabbit was a funny animal comic book series created in 1955 by Al Fago, following his success with Atomic Mouse from Charlton Comics. The story originates with a lonely and starving rabbit that inadvertently gains super powers by eating a radioactive carrot laced with uranium. In 1996, American Comics Group announced the return of Atomic Rabbit, reprinted from the original proofs along with reprints of Peter Rabbit by Fago's younger brother Vincent.
The narrator of Cat's Cradle purports to be engaged in compiling a responsibly factual account of what certain interested Americans were doing at the precise moment the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Through correspondence with the three children of the late Felix Hoenikker, Nobel Prize winner and so-called ''father of the atomic bomb,'' he evolves a portrait of the man in relation to his family and the community.